Yugh language
Extinct Yeniseian language of Russia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yugh (/ˈjuːɡ/ YOOG; Yug) is a Yeniseian language, closely related to Ket, formerly spoken by the Yugh people, one of the southern groups along the Yenisei River in central Siberia.[2] It was once regarded as a dialect of the Ket language, which was considered to be a language isolate, and was therefore called Sym Ket or Southern Ket; however, the Ket considered it to be a distinct language. By the early 1990s there were only two or three fluent speakers remaining, and the language was virtually extinct. The 2002 Census recorded 19 ethnic Yugh in all of Russia.[3] In the 2010 census, only one ethnic Yugh was counted,[4] while in the 2020 census, 7 ethnic Yugh were counted, 2 of them stating that they were speakers of Yugh.[5]
Yugh | |
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Sym Ket | |
Дьук Ďuk | |
Pronunciation | [ɟuk] |
Native to | Russia |
Region | Yenisei River |
Ethnicity | Yugh people |
Extinct | 1991[1] |
Dené–Yeniseian?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | yug |
yug | |
Glottolog | yugh1239 yugh1240 additional bibliography |
ELP | Yug |